V.E. Schwab · 2020 · global

V.E. Schwab's 2020 novel. In 1714, in a French village, a young woman named Addie LaRue makes a desperate bargain to be free and to live forever, and pays for it with a curse: everyone she meets forgets her the moment she leaves. For three hundred years she drifts through France and across the Atlantic to New York, leaving no mark, until one day a young man in a bookshop says the impossible words, I remember you. The route traces her long passage from a village in the Sarthe to the New World.

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   Villon-sur-Sarthe

   In the village of Villon-sur-Sarthe in 1714, fleeing a marriage she never chose, Addie strikes her bargain with the dark and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

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   Paris

   She makes her way to Paris and lives through its salons and revolutions and centuries, an invisible witness leaving no trace in anyone's memory.

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   Le Havre

   From the Atlantic port she takes ship for the New World, one more crossing in a life with no fixed home.

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   New York

   In New York, three hundred years on, a young man in a bookshop remembers her face, and for the first time the curse is broken.